Reviews

MouthWater

National YoungArts Foundation - Miami
Curated by Robert Chambers
By Heike Dempster
Envisioned as a “feast of aesthetics in the visual arts” by curator Robert Chambers, the exhibition “MouthWater” metaphorically stands for and conceptually examines works of art as an outcome of the hunger, drive and determination it takes to create new work as an artist. [...]

Adonis Ferro: Conjuro

Punctum Galería - Mexico City
Curated by Juan Antonio Molina
By Irving Domínguez
“Conjuro” (Incantation), Adonis Ferro’s first solo show in Mexico City, is a new chapter in the series El intenso proceso de descentrar that he started in 2013. Comprised of small-format sculptures and installations created with materials recycled or found at the exhibition locale, [...]

Kenor: Genesis/Techno

Valli Art Gallery - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
Catalonian street artist Kenor recently exhibited “Genesis/Techno” in Miami’s Wynwood Art District. This is not South Florida’s first contact with his work, as he previously left his mark on walls around the city. Kenor’s work is the result of his visual interpretation of music; that is to [...]

Patricia Bellan-Gillen. Willful Wondering: Drawings 2011-2016

Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh

By Kristina Olson
Roaming this large exhibition of recent drawings was akin to stepping into a life-sized children’s pop-up book. Patricia Bellan-Gillen’s prolific output over the last five years comes in three formats included here: smaller colored pencil and collaged works, painterly large-scale pencil and acrylic [...]

Andra Ursuta: Alps

New Museum - New York
By Kim Power
The spring exhibit “Andra Ursuta: Alps” at the New Museum in New York City feels very much like an abandoned set design from the original Star Trek (1966) series, empty of actors to bring to life a room of props. The entrance to the installation is guarded [...]

Nino Cais: Teach Me How to Dance

Fridman Gallery - New York
By Kim Power
Nino Cais’ first solo show in North America at the Fridman Gallery asks Teach Me How to Dance, openly engaging the viewer to actively participate in the interpretation of a personally visual haiku of objects and their relational meanings. Cais, a Brazilian conceptual artist of humble beginnings, [...]

Carlos Motta: Histories for the Future

Pérez Art Museum - Miami
Curated by María Elena Ortiz

By Raisa Clavijo
At Pérez Art Museum, New York-based Carlos Motta (Bogota, 1978) presents an exhibition through which he explores extremely contradictory positions about sexuality and eroticism in indigenous and European cultures during the conquest and colonization of Latin America. His research addresses the way in [...]

Christopher Knowles: In a Word

Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia
Curated by Anthony Elms and Hilton Als.
By Frederick Gross
The poet John Ashbery once called Christopher Knowles’ typed pictographic works “pure Conceptualism,” and this exhibition, co-curated by chief curator Anthony Elms and guest curator Hilton Als, certainly make a case for Knowles’ inclusion among notable artists of the 1970s [...]

Corinne Wasmuht

SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA
By Todd Schroeder
A technological dream space full of paradoxes: repetitions and multiple entrances, a space for narrative that leads nowhere in particular. Hers is a painting in which the flat pattern of pixelated camouflage and the deep depth of Renaissance perspective fight for space, in which the [...]

Lari Pittman: Nuevos Caprichos

Gladstone Gallery - New York
By Craig Drennen
Lari Pittman occupies a special place in the world of contemporary painting. His exhibitions in the mid-1990s had paintings so energized by their own amphetamine crackle that they looked ready to explode out of their frames. The patterns, pilgrims, books, words (”CUM”), numbers (”69″), credit cards, caution [...]